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CVE-2018-19876

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CVE-2018-19876 cairo: Invalid free in cairo_ft_apply_variations() resulting in a denial of service

The MITRE CVE dictionary describes this issue as:

cairo 1.16.0, in cairo_ft_apply_variations() in cairo-ft-font.c, would free memory using a free function incompatible with WebKit's fastMalloc, leading to an application crash with a "free(): invalid pointer" error.